Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has reiterated
his call for the constitution of the country to be redesigned.
According to Akeredolu, the yearnings and aspirations of the
people must be reflected, as well as the interests of the various ethnic groups
in the country well taken care of.
The Governor, who spoke at the 67th Anniversary and Annual
Reunion of the Loyola College Ibadan Old Boys Association (LOCOBA), observed
that the current agitations in the country were a pointer to the necessity and
exigency of fundamental adjustments in the constitution of the country.
Arakunrin Akeredolu, an alumnus of Loyola College, was the
Guest Speaker at the event.
He delivered a lecture titled “ Redesigning The Nigerian
Constitution For National Development And Inclusiveness.”
While urging the constitution review committee of the
National Assembly to ensure that all submissions on the proposed constitutional
amendments were well scrutinised and analysed, Akredolu maintained that such
move should be taken in order for the committee to come up with useful
suggestions on the way forward.
“Democracy operates, presumably, on the principles of freedom
to choose representative leadership, reflective of political alignments as
dictated by current exigencies, a group’s exercise of considerable control on
socio-economic activities and preservation of its identity as a component unit
within a broader political entity.
“It is permissive, on a liberal scale, of the rights of
individual citizens. It also imposes duties and places checks on propensities
towards licentiousness.
“The Constitution of a country is the basic law. The
aspirations, anxieties and expectations of a political entity must be well
captured in the document.
“All other laws must flow from this legal fount. It is not
important for a constitution to be voluminous. It should be concise and written
in a simple but elegant prose. It should leave no section of the country, for
which it is designed, in doubt as regards inclusivity. All component units must
participate as equal partners,” he said.
Akeredolu further stressed that it was an indictment on the
members of the elite class to have allowed the current situation to endure,
saying it mirrored the depth of understanding of politics and political
processes of the ruling class.
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